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Hard evidence for late-antique Salona - E. MARIN (projet coordonné par), texte rédigé sous la direction de N. Gauthier, E. Marin, F. Prévot, par Jean-Pierre Caillet, Noël Duval, Denis Feissel, Nancy Gauthier, Emilio Marin, Françoise Prévot, avec la collaboration de F. Baritel, M. Bonačić Mandinic, I. Britvić-Debeljak, P. Chevalier, T. Dabac, P. Dourthe, C. Goddard, S. Janniard, B. Klein, C. Metzger, M. Perrin, E. Rebillard, SALONA IV. INSCRIPTIONS DE SALONE CHRÉTIENNE IVe-VIIe SIÈCLES, vol. I (Collection de l’Ecole française de Rome 194/4; Rome–Split 2010). 2 vols., pp. xxii + 1363, many ills. ISBN 978-2-7283-0847-7 (édition complète). EUR. 310.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Mark A. Handley*
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markhandley3@hotmail.co.uk

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9 Indeed, even the publisher seems to have been caught out by this numbering system, as the cover blurb cites 825 and not 1205 as the total number of Latin inscriptions.

10 For instance, Salona does not rate a mention in the indices to either Wickham, C., Framing the Early Middle Ages (Oxford 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar or Innes, M., Introduction to Early Medieval Western Europe, 300-900 (London 2007)Google Scholar. Salona is mentioned in passing four times in CAH XIV, Late Antiquity: empire and successors, A.D. 425-600 (2008), but two of these references are to a spurious 13th-c. account of Salona’s fall.

11 Two such congresses have been held in Salona, and the pages of many of the others contain important articles concerning the town.

12 In addition to the works already cited, see Dyggve, E., History of Salonitan Christianity (Oslo 1951)Google Scholar; Duval, N. et al., Salona I. Catalogue de la sculpture architecturale paléochrétienne de Salone (CollEFR 194(1), 1994)Google Scholar; Chevalier, P., Salona II. Ecclesiae Dalmatiae. L’architecture paléochrétienne de la province de Dalmatie (IVe-VIIe s.) en dehors de la capitale (CollEFR 194(2), 1995)Google Scholar; and Duval, N. and Marin, E. (edd.), Salona III. Manastirine. Établissement préromain, nécropole et basilique paléochrétienne (CollEFR 194(3), 2000)Google Scholar.

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14 See the sources helpfully collected in Salona christiana (1994) 95195 Google Scholar.

15 There are issues with the authenticity and transmission of these records, since they survive in a work of the 12th c.; even so, the consensus has tended to favour authenticity. On these councils see now Škegro, A., “Akti salonitanskih metropolitanskih sabora održanih 530. i 533. godine-analiza,” Archaeologia Adriatica 3 (2009) 191204 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Prozorov, V., “The sixth-century councils of Salona,” Vjesnik za Arheologiju i Povijest Dalmatinsku 104 (2011) 309[-37Google Scholar, which includes English translations.

16 See Handley, M. A., “Disputing the end of African Christianity,” in Merrills, A. (ed.), Vandals, Romans and Berbers: new perspectives on late antique North Africa (London 2004) 308-9Google Scholar.

17 See Bulić, F., “Sull’anno della destruzione di Salona,” Bulletino de storia et archeologia Dalmata 29 (1906) 268304 Google Scholar; Jakšić, N., “Constantine Porphyrogenitus as the source for destruction of Salona,” Vjesnik za arheologiju i historiju dalmatinsku 77 (1984) 315-26Google Scholar; I. Marovic, “Reflexions about the year of the destruction of Salona,” ibid. 293-314 [Croatian]; Gauthier, N., “À la veille de la chute de Salone: l’épitaphe du prêtre Iohannes (599 ou 603) ap. J.-C.,” in Desmulliez, J. and Cauwenberghe, C. Hoet-van (edd.), Le monde romain à travers l’épigraphie: méthodes et pratiques (Lille 2005) 383-96Google Scholar.

18 See the recent discussion in Dzino, D., Becoming Slav, becoming Croat: identity transformation in post-Roman and early Medieval Dalmatia (Leiden 2010) 104-17CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

19 The translation is that of Davis, R., The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis) (Liverpool 1989) 66 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

20 All these martyrs are recorded in the mosaics of the oratory of S. Venanzio in the Lateran Baptistery, built by John IV: see Yasin (supra n.13) 69-71.

21 For the hoards see Marovic (supra n.17).

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23 As well as being published in Mihaljčić, R. and Steindorf, L. (edd.), Namentragende Steininschriften in Jugoslawien vom Ende des 7. bis zur Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts (Wiesbaden 1982) 122 Google Scholar, the inscription is mentioned and discussed by Delonga, V., The Latin epigraphic monuments of Early Medieval Croatia (Split 1996) 21 Google Scholar. The inscription was not edited per se in the latter volume because the “Early Medieval Croatia” of the title refers to the area covered by the Early Medieval kingdom of Croatia, not that covered by the modern country; as such, Salona and its environs (along with all those areas of Dalmatia ruled from Byzantium or which were independent) were excluded.

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32 Examples include CIL III 9606 = ILCV 749; FS III 12a; ILJ I 2212, 2248, 2358, 2417, 2671, and ILJ III 708.